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Milo Yiannopoulos finds number one Aussie fan in Alan Jones

Alan Jones bonds on air with “brilliantly gifted, provocative” Milo Yiannopoulos over far-right conservatism.

Alan Jones and Milo Yiannopoulous
Alan Jones and Milo Yiannopoulous

Far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos may have found his number one Australian fan in Alan Jones this morning, following a bizarre 14-minute interview in which the pair espoused the values of far-right conservatism and descended into random fits of giggles.

The UK-born, US-based alt-right speaker dialled into Mr Jones’ radio show this morning from Melbourne, where he is currently on a national speaking tour.

His appearance on Jones’ show came after police charged two people with discharging a missile during a violent protester clash outside Mr Yiannopoulos’ talk in Melbourne last night.

The 33-year-old former senior editor for Breitbart News spoke to Jones about the altercation, assuring his cult following that he was fine but expressing his disappointment that protesters had appeared.

“I was whisked out the back entrance in a big truck, surrounded by large men but there was a lot of kerfuffle out front it was not as the newspaper outlets are reporting it,” Mr Yiannopoulos said.

“This was the left showing up being violent to stop people’s speech”.

Mr Yiannopoulos said if Australia can’t accommodate him and his beliefs without violent scuffles breaking out then the country has a “serious problem with free expression and free inquiry”.

“It doesn't speak highly of the country,” he said.

Mr Jones spent the majority of the interview fawning over his guest, praising his efforts to improve conservative free speech and describing him as “brilliantly gifted and provocative”.

At one point, Mr Jones recovered from a fit of laughter and yelled, “Oh, don’t we need you, don’t we need you!”.

Mr Yiannopoulos said his tour promoters had struggled to find a venue that would allow him to hold his talks, or a hotel that would allow him to stay, claiming he couldn’t throw enough money at hotels “to allow me to stay in them”.

“From a hotel point of view it’s a property damage thing, from a venue point of view, they’re worried because the left holds this Damoclean sword over the heads of anyone who will allow conservatives to speak,” he said.

“The left will say ‘we will associate your brand, venue with the worst conceivable crimes, with neo-nazism and pedophiles, and we will attempt to associate your name with the most evil and depraved things in life’”.

He called the left a political system of “allegations” used to bully and intimidate.

The controversial right-wing activist will speak at Parliament House in Canberra today, at the invitation of crossbench senator David Leyonhjelm, in spite of the Greens attempts to ban his appearance.

Mr Jones asked his guest to respond to a Twitter comment, made by Labor MP Andrew Leigh, that he was the “antithesis of open, multicultural, outward-looking Australia”.

“If a gay, Jewish immigrant with a black husband isn’t diverse, what does he want?” Mr Yiannopoulos joked.

The pair then spent several seconds giggling on air before Mr Yiannopoulos launched again at Mr Lee.

“I don’t know what it is, it wouldn’t matter if I were a paraplegic, lesbian, Muslim, immigrant, because I believe in the small state, low taxes and free speech I don’t think I’m going to be diverse enough for him no matter what,” he said.

He claimed his sold out shows were so popular in Australia that promoters had added more dates to the list.

“We’re at 14,000 people showing up to my shows over the course of a week,” he said.

“We’ve had to add new shows all the time, we’ve added a third date in Sydney, we’re adding shows, adding capacity”

“One of the problems we’re having is not just venues cancelling on us but finding venues big enough to host us”.

Mr Yiannopoulos’ tour concludes on the Gold Coast on December 7.

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